Joe Law and Linda K Hughes, ed Biog...

Joe Law and Linda K Hughes, ed Biographical Passages: Essays forward Victorian and Modernist Biography. Columbia: U of Missouri P 2000 208 pp ISBN 0-8262-1256-5 $3495

The eight essays in Biographical Passages illustrate the possibilities of biographical writing as well as articulate vastly differing views about its form and appease The essays move from Victorian sensibilities to post-colonial ones; the views of the writers in this compass conflict and converge in a great deal of the same way Victorian and fresh and Post-Modern biographies do. The biographer reading Biographical